Reverence and Art

Title: Ascension Artist: Francisco Camilo (Spanish, 1610[?]-1673) Date: 1651 Genre: religious art (Christianity) Movement: Baroque Period: Spanish Golden Age (Siglo de Oro) Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 207 cm (81.5 in) high x 137 cm (53.9 in) wide Location: Museu Nacional d'Arte de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

This painting depicts Christ's ascension into heaven, as recounted in Chapter 1 of the Book of Acts. As Christ is drawn upward into parting clouds, his disciples watch in amazement. Prominent among them are the Virgin Mary (at left, in blue) and John (at right, in red).

Title: Pentecost, aka Descent of the Holy Spirit (panel from the Pruszcz Polyptych) Artist: Colijn de Coter (Flemish, fl. ca. 1493-1506) Date: ca. 1500 Genre: religious art (Roman Catholic Christianity) Period: Northern Renaissance Movement: Early Netherlandish Medium: tempera on panel Dimensions: 164 cm (64.5 in) high x 73 cm (28.7 in) wide Location: National Museum in Warsaw, Poland

Caesar's Coin

Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)

Date: ca. 1614

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Description

The Entombment

Artist: Simon Vouet (French, 1590-1649)

Date: ca. 1636-1638

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: © MuMa Le Havre / Museum of Modern Art André Malraux, Le Havre, France

Description

The Entombment of Christ is a poignant, emotionally restrained Baroque masterpiece. Commissioned for the Séguier Chapel in France, it combines Italian Caravaggesque drama with the measured elegance that defined Vouet's French court style, characterized by monumental simplicity and rich, luminous color.

Jesus Is Buried

After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body. Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds in weight. So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews. Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb bin which no one had yet laid. So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.

The Women at the Tomb of Christ

Artist: Ferdinand Bol (Dutch, 1616-1680)

Date: 1644

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Staten Museum for Kunst / The National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

Description

"I Thirst": The Vinegar Given to Jesus ("J'ai Soif." Le Vinaigre Donné à Jésus)

Artist: James Jaques Joseph Tissot (French, 1836-1902)

Date: 1881-1894

Medium: Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper

Collection: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Description

The artwork depicts the biblical scene from John 19:29, where a soldier offers a sponge soaked in vinegar (or sour wine/posca) to Jesus on the cross

Ecce Agnus Dei

Artist: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Spanish, 1617–1682)

Date: ca. 1655

Medium: Oil on canvas

Before the Crucifixion

Artist: Cornelis Engebrechtsz (Dutch, c.1462–1527) 

Date: 16 century

Medium: Oil on panel

The Crucifixion

Artist: Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish, 1598–1664)

Date: 1627

Medium: Oil on canvas

Quentin Metsys, ‘Vièrge à l’Enfant entourée d’anges’, vers 1500-1509 (The Courtauld Gallery, Londres)

Quentin Metsys (attr. à), ‘La Vierge à l’Enfant entourée d’anges’, après 1510 (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon)

St. Peter Denying Christ

Artist: Benjamin West (American, 1738-1820)

Date: 1778

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, London, United Kingdom

Description

Saint George and the Dragon, altarpiece of Saint George, ca. 1470

Pedro Nisart, active 1468-1470